Shuhei Yoshida Reportedly Unsure If There Will Be a PS5

Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning has said that PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has expressed uncertainty as to whether there will be a PlayStation 5.

Lanning made the comments on the Game Informer Show (as spotted by excellently monikered NeoGAF user generic_username), where he said he asked a question about the possible future console ahead of an on-stage interview between the two:

"I said, 'well, what does the PlayStation 5 look like?' and he said 'you mean if'. [...] I said 'are you willing to say that on a stage?' and he said 'yeah, it's an if'."

Skip to 45:04 to hear Lanning's comments.

While it's extremely doubtful that Yoshida would mean the PlayStation brand will cease to exist, the seeming existence of the mid-generation PS4 upgrade, apparently codenamed Neo, could point to a planned future of iterative consoles, with much shorter spaces between "generations":

"It was a really interesting thing," said Lanning, "and he didn't give me a clear answer, but he's hinting at [needing] to be more agile. None of us know what the future really looks like, so how do we adapt faster? To me that's the way he was thinking about it [...] The idea that you're going to be releasing a piece of technology that lasts seven years into the future, I think, is less and less viable."

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It's not just Sony apparently planning for a less delineated console future. Only yesterday, rumours emerged of an Xbox prototype "tested with upgraded components you'd use to improve the performance of a PC gaming rig."

We've contacted Sony for comment.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor and he thinks the PS5 will be a pair of nice shoes with hologram projectors built into the toes. See the future on his Twitter.